Van Damned
A group of ageing action-movie obsessives find themselves trapped in a real-life Die Hard scenario — and finally get to test whether any of that movie knowledge is actually useful.
United We Stand
A disgraced footballer is hired to build a national team for one of the world's smallest island nations — but his ragtag squad of locals and asylum seekers can't compete unless he finds a way to free their star player from an offshore detention centre.
Sentence
A lonely aspiring novelist deliberately tries to get himself sent to minimum-security prison so he can finally finish his book — but he's hopelessly incapable of breaking the law.
SENCo
A reluctant SENCo battles bureaucracy, burnout, and impossible expectations in a school system that asks him to save every child while quietly falling apart himself.
United Kingdom
Years after a supposed nuclear attack forced Britain's population into isolated rural zones, an 18-year-old girl discovers London was never abandoned — it's been secretly occupied by the political elite all along.
Here and Now
When her wealthy ex dumps her in a derelict Norfolk cottage and then comes back wanting it returned, a stalled musical-theatre writer refuses out of pure spite — unaware that her refusal is the only thing standing between the village and a 500-home development.
The Invigilators
Blocked from joining the British police, a brilliant Hong Kong detective takes work as a school exam invigilator — and starts solving the crimes nobody else notices.
Attic
A civil servant discovers paintings in his aunt's attic that reveal the suppressed identities of British upper-class wartime fifth columnists. At the centre of the mystery: a Polish double agent who worked as a painter — and whose secrets have been buried for decades.
Spectrum
Ani is the smartest person in the world — not that anyone in the care system has bothered to notice. A polymath savant with synesthesia, dismissed as a troubled teenage girl, she uncovers a tech billionaire running illegal experiments on autistic children. His goal: to steal her gifts for himself.
100th Man
The story of Ray Krone — the hundredth person to be released from Death Row due to DNA evidence. The film looks back at Ray's arrest, his years in prison, and his ultimate release, driven by the unwavering efforts of friends and family and Ray's refusal to give up.
Envoy
England, 1066. A sixteen-year-old Saxon messenger is sent north alone through occupied country to warn King Harald of the Norman invasion — four days on foot, through betrayal, burning churches, and enemy patrols — to deliver a warning that history has already outrun.
The Hypochondriac's Club
Will Chambers is a shallow food critic drifting through a failing marriage when his wife falls into a coma. While performing grief for sympathetic nurses, he stumbles upon four strangers in the hospital café — all convinced they are terminally ill. None of them are. A dark comedy about the stories we tell ourselves.
Tracks in the Smoke
It's the first of December and private eye Nick Dante hasn't had a case worth investigating in a while. When a sound engineer asks him to prove his company didn't leak the new album by pop mega-star Maya Prada, Dante is reluctant. He doesn't like the case or his client. Then he meets Ronnie — and his priorities change. A Christmas noir set across the world of multinational record labels, shady ex-military contractors, and several people from Dante's past who don't want to wish him a Merry Christmas.
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